Two observers were forcefully removed from the polling station No. 1111 in Makhachkala. Videos of the violations during the elections were deleted from their phones, one of them told the "Caucasian Knot".

Increasing Russian deaths in Syria are causing anger in the North Caucasus. The death of an Ingush soldier in last week's plane crash provoked remarks such as "we need to bring our boys home, not have them die in some foreign fratricidal war."